Jnes on Android returns

February 19th, 2017 posted by Jabo

A year ago Jnes got suspended from the Google Play, and despite an appeal they were not willing to change this. The entire transition from having a well regarded app to nothing was jarring given countless hours spent coding. I tried to forget about this and focus on other things for a while.

Figuring out how to move forward from here was a tricky puzzle others have experienced. In my case, I didn't want to change the app or alienate anyone who funded development by purchasing it. However after a year of watching Jnes sit on the shelf, I decided to publish a free version with the all the base functionality you would expect from an emulator, there is an in-app purchase for extra features like Bluetooth Netplay.

I felt this approach was the simplest compromise to make Jnes available again and let more people enjoy it. I'm hopeful changes I've made to the app, and Google improving it's developer support, will make this unlikely to happen again, but there are no guarantees. A special thanks to everyone who supported Jnes on the Android previously, this wouldn't have been possible with you. Whether you buy the extra features or not, I know you'll enjoy using this app to play games, please let me know.

Jnes 1.2.1 released for Windows

January 15th, 2017 posted by Jabo

After the holiday release, user feedback indicated that game pad input POV hats were not working and Windows XP support was in fact broken as expected. I'm happy to say with a modest amount of work both of these issues should be fixed in this release, enjoy!

Jnes 1.2 released for Windows

December 25th, 2016 posted by Jabo

Merry Christmas everyone!
It's been a year since I've posted here, but even longer since a release for Jnes for Windows, over three years in fact. Since the last Windows release there were pretty big changes under the hood to get Jnes to work on Android, and in the background I have been trying to also improve the accuracy of the emulator. While Jnes has a proud tradition of playing most games, there are some subtle hardware behaviors that Jnes was not able to emulate correctly. I've made some progress on improving that in this release, you are unlikely to notice it unless it breaks something. Cheats also got reworked significantly, editing should be stable. There are a slew of new awesome cheat codes from Gent, please give him some thanks for all his hard work in helping put this release together.

Lastly this update brings a much needed upgrade to DirectX 9.0, which should modernize Jnes on newer versions of Windows, as well as a native 64-bit version which is just nice to have. It was discovered during testing that this version may not work on Windows XP any longer, and I'm not sure why. I decided to move ahead with the release rather than delay it.

My hope is that this release brings some joy to the world, for those of you who have been anticipating a new release for a while please accept this gift with warmest regards, I hope it has something you were looking forward to. I might be getting a bit older, but the world seems like it could use a bit of joy and understanding from each other now more than ever. Please pass some joy forward to others, especially at this time of year.

Jnes removed from Google Play store

December 4th, 2015 posted by Jabo

I'm disappointed to inform everyone Jnes has been removed from the store by Google on December 2nd. After contacting Google several times this week, I have received a response indicating that they have declined to put the application back into the store due to perceived copyright infringement. Knowing that there are users that have downloaded the app already I decided to write a blog post now that I know it's not returning.

As things sit right now app is suspended and I am unable to change anything, contact Google Play support with any questions or if you want to convince them to put it back.

Going into this, I knew that being removed was a possible outcome! It seems like Google Play has become a walled garden and provides little consideration to developers and users. Thanks to everyone that supported this, wish it didn't end up like this.

Jnes 1.1.1 released for Windows

June 21st, 2013 posted by Jabo

Since the last release there has been some important bugs fixed and I'm happy to say the Android version has allowed me to spend more time improving emulation compatibility and working on Jnes in general. Thanks to everyone who has supported Jnes in Google Play! The Android version has been quite an interesting project, the feedback and help from everyone has been great, I'm truly impressed with the Android community.

Today I wanted to finally get an updated version of the Windows binaries out that has these improvements as well as things that a few users have asked for. While this is a minor update I think it has a lot of key things that everyone will enjoy, I didn't want to wait longer. I know many have been waiting patiently for this update, for a full list of changes see the downloads area.